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Virtual Reality MRI Experience for Children

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Serious Games (JCSG 2016)

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) procedures can be intimidating experiences, in particular for young children.

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  1. VR Research Group, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Jan Kruse, Gregory Bennett & Andrew Denton

  2. DHW Lab, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Stephen Reay

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  1. Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

    Tim Marsh

  2. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

    Minhua Ma

  3. SINTEF Technology and Society, Oslo, Norway

    Manuel Fradinho Oliveira

  4. University of Bremen, Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

  5. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

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Kruse, J., Bennett, G., Reay, S., Denton, A. (2016). Virtual Reality MRI Experience for Children. In: Marsh, T., Ma, M., Oliveira, M., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Göbel, S. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9894. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45841-0_26

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